Now that the Tomestone emote's been implemented in FFXIV...

[Enkidoh]

The 'smartphone' tomestone emote as an actual phone is kind of superflorous in the game's lore anyway as linkpearls already fill that role (they are literally phones in function, right down to using radio waves to transmit and recieve messages and having a phone-ringtone-like chirp in certain cutscenes when a npc is receiving a call.).

So I agree with Obsidian, the emote is basically just a tomestone reader and not an actual smartphone (I think we've kind of had enough smartphone placement in the FF series already with FFXV and it's ilk ), as linkpearls are already used for communication and serve the same purpose.

[Bright-Flower]

The 'smartphone' tomestone emote as an actual phone is kind of superflorous in the game's lore anyway as linkpearls already fill that role (they are literally phones in function, right down to using radio waves to transmit and recieve messages and having a phone-ringtone-like chirp in certain cutscenes when a npc is receiving a call.).

So I agree with Obsidian, the emote is basically just a tomestone reader and not an actual smartphone (I think we've kind of had enough smartphone placement in the FF series already with FFXV and it's ilk ), as linkpearls are already used for communication and serve the same purpose.

Linkpearls do already serve the place of regular telephones, true, but a smartphone with a touch screen would be something new. If one assumes these exist in lore, personally I don't they're meant to in the first place, just as I don't think the shiva/odin/bahamut emotes are meant as a lore thing.

[zuzu-bq]

Remember the emote's own text: nothing happens.